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LIVE BLOG: Follow Indiana's Game at Ohio State in Real Time

Indiana and Ohio State meet for the second time this season on Monday night in Columbus. The Hoosiers won the first meeting in Bloomington in early January. Here is our live blog, with all the news and views in real time live from press row at the Value City Arena.

Tom Brew

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Welcome to the Value City Arena in Columbus, where Indiana is taking on No. 22-ranked Ohio State on Monday night. The game was originally set for Saturday.

Indiana has had six days off, Ohio State two. So it will be interesting to see if fatigue is a factor.

Welcome to our live blog, where all the latest items are on top, so just keep refreshing.

Enjoy the game!

9:29 p.m. — Indiana runs Miller Kopp through a screen and he takes a three but misses. Race Thompson fouls on the rebound. Kyle Young makes one free throw. Ohio State leads 76-69. Parker Stewart takes a step-back three for Indiana, but misses.

9:25 p.m. — Xavier Johnson drives to the rim twice in a row and misses both times. Contact both times too, but no call. Ohio State 74-69 with 47.4 to go. A foul and technical get called on Xavier Johnson, so he's out of the game now. E.J. Liddell called for a technical too in that post-basket scrum. Liddell makes one free throw.

9:20 p.m. Ohio State gets a huge three from Jamari Wheeler to go up 70-67. Ohio State has scored on all three possessions so far.  Xavier Johnson makes two free throws, and it's 70-69. E.J. Liddell hits a jumper from the left corner with 2:00 to go, and Ohio State leads by 3.

9:16 p.m. — Xavier Johnson gets fouled on Indiana's first possession in overtime, and makes both free throws. Indiana 65-63. OSU scores, but then Xavier Johnson with a nice pass inside to Race Thompson, who scores. OSU answers again. Tied at 67.

9:11 p.m. — Bad turnover by Indiana, as Race Thompson tries to force a pass into Trayce Jackson-Davis. Ohio State gets two free throws on the other end. Indiana runs down the shot clock, and Tamar Bates misses a long three. E.J. Liddell dunks with 5 seconds to go to tie the game. We're going to overtime. 

9:07 p.m. — Tamar Bates with a huge three-pointer as the shot clock was winding down. Indiana leads 63-59.

8:58 p.m. — Great patience in the post by Trayce Jackson-Davis, who waits out the double and hits Tamar Bates cross-court. He hits a three, and Indiana leads 59-55. Biggest lead of the night for the Hoosiers. Timeout at 4:13.

8:54 p.m. — Ohio State has scored only six points in the final eight minutes, very reminiscent of the game in Bloomington, where the Hoosiers shut then down late. Trayce Jackson-Davis gets fouled and makes both free throws. Indiana has its first lead since the opening minutes, 56-55.  

8:45 p.m. — Officials assess a Flagrant-1 foul on Ohio State's E.J. Liddell and Xavier Johnson makes both free throws. Indiana gets the ball, but Miller Kopp travels. It's 53-50, Ohio State leading. And now, baskets by Johnson and Tamar Bates has cut the lead to ONE! Ohio State 55, Indiana 54 with 7:11 to go. Chris Holtmann calls timeout.

8:40 p.m. — Miller Kopp is being much more aggressive this half in looking for his shots. He hits a big three-pointer there to get Indiana within five at 53-48. There's 9:15 to go. 

8:32 p.m. — We're at the under-12 media timeout, and Ohio State leads by 10 at 51-41. 

8:27 p.m. — Indiana has made ONE of its last eight free throw attempts. This is just ridiculous. 

8:20 p.m. — Not a very good defensive effort so far tonight from Indiana, especially to start the second half here. Ohio State is 5-for-5 from the field, and four different players have scored. Mike Woodson takes a timeout and rips into them.

8:12 p.m. — Needless to say, this is a huge 20 minutes for the Hoosiers. Ohio State jumps out to a 40-32 lead, but Race Thompson hits a three to stop the bleeding.

HALFTIME STATS: Trayce Jackson-Davis leading the way for Indiana with 10 points and six rebounds, and Parker Stewart is next with eight. Xavier Johnson is 1-for-5 shooting with five turnovers. 

HALFTIME: We're at the break, and Indiana trails Ohio State 33-28. Could have been better. Anthony Leal was fouled in the closing seconds, but he missed both free throws. Indiana was 6-for-7 from the line before that.

7:49 p.m. — Indiana perimeter shooting update. Parker Stewart is 2-for-2 from deep, but the rest of the team is 0-for-4. Misses by Xavier Johnson, Miller Kopp, Tamar Bates and Anthony Leal. Such a problem for the team. Ohio State leads 33-28 with 1:04 to go.

7:37 p..m. — Indiana is doing a great job on Ohio State star E.J. Liddell so far. He's just 1-for-6 shooting and 0-for-3 from three-point range. 

7:30 p.m. — At the under-8 media timeout, and Ohio State is up 17-15. Big three-pointer by Parker Stewart cut the lead to two, and then he hits another one to put Indiana ahead.

7:22 p.m. — We're nine minutes in, and Ohio State leads 17-12. Xavier Johnson gets a rest for the first time, so it's going to be on Parker Stewart and freshman Tamar Bates to run the offense.

7:13 p.m. — We're at the first media timeout and Indiana leads 6-5. The Hoosiers are 3-for-5 from the field, but the four turnovers have hurt, and most were unforced.  They're not dialed in early, which is surprising after six days off.

7:05 p.m. — And we're off. Not the start we wanted to see from Xavier Johnson. Three turnovers in the first four minutes. 

6:55 p.m. — A lot of pressure on point guard Xavier Johnson since he doesn't have any true backups at the point. Three injuries at one position. 

6:50 p.m. — Here are the starters for Indiana, the usual crew. It's Trayce Jackson-Davis and Race Thompson up front, with Miller Kopp, Parker Stewart and Xavier Johnson on the perimeter.

6:45 p.m. — Indiana will be without three players on Monday night. Trey Galloway, Khristian Lander and Rob Phinisee are all out with injuries. Here's the story. CLICK HERE

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Tom Brew
TOM BREW

Tom Brew is an award-winning journalist who has worked at some of America's finest newspapers as a reporter and editor, including the Tampa Bay (Fla.) Times, the Indianapolis Star and the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. He has covered college sports in the digital platform for the past six years, including the last five years as publisher of HoosiersNow on the FanNation/Sports Illustrated network.

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